Any person having charge of any public or private improvement in the city, who shall leave any hole, ditch, or excavation in or adjoining any public square, alley, street, sidewalk, or other public place without guarding, covering, or fencing the same so as to prevent persons and animals from danger of falling therein shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(1977 Code, sec. 15-11)
(a) 
Any person who shall obstruct or injure, or cause to be obstructed or injured, any street, sidewalk, avenue, or alley in the city, with any vehicle, boxes, lumber, timber, firewood, posts, awnings, signs, or other substances or materials, in any manner whatsoever, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) 
Subsection (a) shall not be construed to prohibit any person engaged in building, repairing, or removing any building, or other improvement, from occupying with stone, brick, lumber or other material, the portion of any street, avenue, or alley adjacent to such improvement; provided, that such material shall not occupy more than one-third (1/3) of the width of such street, avenue, or alley, nor be placed thereon more than ten (10) days before beginning such improvement, nor allowed to remain thereon more than five (5) days after the completion of such improvement.
(1977 Code, sec. 15-12; 1977 Code, sec. 15-13)